A Report On The E-C Translation Of New Horizons--Securing Europe’s Technological Sovereignty Through Photonics (Excerpts)

This translation practice material was excerpted from New Horizons--Securing Europe’s Technological Sovereignty through Photonics.This material is a scientific and technical text,its main content is about the impacts of European photonics research and photonics technology on Europe and the challenges encountered in photonics research and innovation.It is a professional and logical report,and it involves a lot of background information.The author analyzed the translation problems encountered in the translation process and gave examples with detailed explanations.This translation practice report mainly focuses on vocabulary translation and sentence translation.Under the support of Newmark’s theory of semantic translation and communicative translation,the author flexibly adopted proper strategies and analyzed the translation skills and methods of sci-tech English at different levels.The author has tried to complete the conversion accurately and smoothly,and to avoid professional fallacies at the same time.At the lexical level,semantic translation theory is often used in the translation of scientific and technological nouns and names of institutions and departments,while communicative translation theory is often used in the translation of acronyms and part-of-speech conversion;At the sentence level,for passive sentences and long difficult sentences,these two theories are flexibly adopted.In order to test the quality of the translation,improve the lexical accuracy,sentence logic and overall professionalism,the author selected some sentences that are closely related to science and technology,and designed a questionnaire accordingly.Since global competition in science and technology is fierce,the photonics technology research in Europe will affect the trends of relevant research in the United States,Asia and even the world.Through the comparison between Chinese and English languages,the author not only expects to accurately convey the major contents of original text,but also to transfer the strategic development thinking and new horizons.